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On 07/01/2014 01:10 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I met with Carlos of Zanata last week to chat about progress on
> getting a VM up to demo it, some take-aways that we should chat about:
> 
> 1. I was finally able to get a demo up of the pre-configured JBoss AS
> 7 version and they've updated http://zanata.org/download/ to reflect
> parts where I got stuck
> 
> Unfortunately they say right on that page that "that this is not the
> supported configuration" since it's pretty much a pre-packaged version
> pinned to AS7, and AS7 is an older, community-based version of JBoss
> that doesn't guarantee security updates. They target the enterprise
> version for use with Zanata.
> 
> Now, even getting this demo running is a very manual process and
> probably not worth puppetizing since it's not a long term solution,
> it's just a demo. The question here is - do we want to move forward
> with deploying this kind of demo site for the translators to test, or
> do we want to have a properly installed, puppetized version running?
> 
> Which leads me to...
> 
> 2. The community-based (no enterprise license) version of their
> Enterprise JBoss is called WildFly (wildfly.org) and doesn't quite run
> Zanata yet
> 
> There are some technical blockers to getting Zanata running on this,
> but there's at least one person who is working on it, and with our
> help might be able to get all the way there with full support. This is
> an investment of time for us, but if it is a great translations
> platform that the translators want to use, it may be worth it. OTOH,
> Pootle already works.
> 
> 3. Finally, there is the option of working with Red Hat to get a
> donated license for their Enterprise JBoss version for use by
> OpenStack, at the loss of having that part of our infrastructure being
> "less free" than other parts due to requirement of Enterprise
> licensing.
> 
Hey Lyz,

First of all, great work on all of this, putting in the time to research
all the options and getting a demo running.

I'd like to look at this in terms of the end goal, translations. That is
the end goal, yes?

Is one tool any better than the other (zanta and pootle are the two
options, yes?) at doing translating? Is the end product substantially
better using one tool than the other?

Thanks,
Anita.